Let's discuss this article

[Anonymous No.11908265]

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1606/1606.05786.pdf
Title:
>The Ecology of Fringe Science and its Bearing on Policy
authors:
>Harry Collins, Andrew Bartlett and Luis Reyes-Galindo

my thoughts:
wow, a great recap of pseuds and how retarded they are!

here's a nice excerpt to discuss:
>Secondly, there is a surprising readiness to discuss the possibility that the resistance of the mainstream to fringe ideas is the consequence of mainstream cabals, particularly, a Jewish conspiracy.The website scientificethics.org, makes allegations of ‘Jewish corruption’ and ‘scientific gangsterism’[33]as a cause of the ‘persecut[ion]of the Italian American scientist R. M. Santilli’,leading to the suppression of unorthodox scientific ideas, particularly those that conflict with ‘organized Jewish interests on Einstein’.[34]

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[Anonymous No.11908267]

>>11908265
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>A previous PhD research project at Cardiff on the danger of genetically manipulated organisms also ran into Jewish conspiracy theories when fringe ideas were rejected. Ethnographic research revealed that a casual, ‘matter-of-fact’, conversation can be held over dinner in certain fringe organizations about Einstein’s one-time support for Israel leading the large number of Jews in modern physics to support relativity against all opposition. This is an uncomfortable echo of the ‘Jewish physics’ notions of the Nazis.[35] We wrote to a number of senior mainstream physicists asking if this kind of accusation ever reached their ears but they told us that this was no part of day-to-day physics nor had they ever heard of such things. Clearly this kind of idea violates the Mertonian norm of ‘universality’ and this might be said to distinguish at least a proportion of the group from the socio-cognitive activity of mainstream science. We will see that ‘norm-violation’ is one of our demarcation characteristics. But since much of the fringe does adhere to the Mertonian and other typically scientific norms, and since a proportion of the mainstream violates the norms, norm violation will be a useful criterion for policy-makers on only rare and specific occasions.[36]

[Anonymous No.11908270]

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>Thirdly, there are a large number of engineers, particularly electrical engineers, populating the fringe.For example, of the 31 speakers at the EU2014 conference organized by the Thunderbolts Project, at least 11 had backgrounds in engineering, 5 of which were electrical engineers. We have seen above that this was noted by Michael Berry, former editor of the Proceedings of the Royal Society. We asked Berry why he thought this was and he remarked that he thought engineers’views were based in a ‘practical working knowledge and a sound intuitive understanding of aspects of electromagnetism’ but this, he believed, could make it hard to accept the counterintuitive consequences of a relativistic world view.
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yeah, in my experience, they are right. the EU pseuds on /sci/ are often the same folks who post "muh jooz elite cabal adrenochrome REEEE MUH QANON" because of course, super duper off-the-charts high IQ

[Anonymous No.11908676]

>>11908265
>zero equations
no thanks I dont need to read fiction right now